ITALY Readers's Tips - Travel light and only take baggage that can be put in the overhead.o luggage checked problem solved. John B.

My opinion is that it isn't the fact that Alitalia loses more luggage than other airlines, but the way they handle it once it is lost.I agree that not checking your luggage is a good solution. Having had luggage problems on each of my last two trips to Europe (one with Alitalia, I don't think I'll be checking baggage ever again when going oversees. Loffer makes a good point.ow will you be treated if the statistically inevitable happens to you Usually it is the airport handling systems and staff that misdirect the bags, not the airline itself as soon as the agent tags your bag and puts it on the conveyor belt, it is under the airport workers' control, and the bar codes can get misread by scanners and similar airport codes mixed up by inattentive workers lots of things can happen in the airport until they stash the bag in the belly of the airplane. But still, you want the airline to make up for any misdirection or outright loss, and it happens to all airlines, so what matters is how the airline deals with is after it has happened. Read up on the various airtravel sites with that in mind how people were treated by which airlines.aybe you will discern a certain pattern. The statistics (if you find any reliable ones and not just anecdotal accounts of which airlines have how many baggage complaints mean pretty little but how disputes get resolved is more important to you, and in that department it appears that Alitalia doesn't do well at all.he company is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the Italian state keeps propping it up, but there surely is not a single penny or Euro available for better training and staffing the ship is sinking and there is no time to rearrange the deck chairs.

Given what you have said about Alitalia being on the verge of bankruptcy, do you recommend flying them Should I get travel insurance in case they go under Do you have any recommendations on travel insurance And, by the way, you are very knowledgable about travel to Italy and I appreciate all of the advice and postings you have put on this message board.

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